Apple Embraces New Marketing Strategy for Neo, 2025 PC Sales Data, Memory as Leverage

Happy Tuesday.

MacBook Neo will continue to be a discussion topic in this week’s updates.

I’ve been using a MacBook Neo. Tomorrow’s update will go over my hands-on experience and impressions.

For today’s update, we kick things off with a closer look at some interesting marketing tactics that Apple is utilizing for Neo.

Let’s jump in.


Apple Embraces New Marketing Strategy for Neo

On TikTok, Apple is having fun with a new marketing approach. A dozen clips related to MacBook Neo and some Mac folklore were uploaded over the span of a few days last week. One should be able to watch the videos here even without a TikTok account.

Over at Macworld, David Price wrote that “anyone older than Gen Alpha may find [Apple’s TikTok videos] entirely incomprehensible.” Others have described the videos as unhinged and brain rot.

As someone in a generation older than Gen Alpha, Price is not giving me enough credit in terms of making sense of the videos. As for the allegations that the clips were unhinged and brain rot, for those of you unfortunate enough to

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